Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. German Music and Philosophy: An Introduction -- 2. Doppelbewegung: The Musical Movement of Philosophy and the Philosophical Movement of Music -- 3. Brazen Wheels: F. W. J. Schelling on the Origins of Music and Tragedy -- 4. The Will as World and Music: Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Music -- 5. The Ring as Deconstruction of Modernity: Reading Wagner with Benjamin -- 6. "Not Mere Music": Nietzsche and the Problem of Moral Content in Music -- 7. Bloch's Dream, Music's Traces -- 8. Dissonance and Aesthetic Totality: Adorno Reads Schönberg -- 9. Thomas Mann: Pro and Contra Adorno -- 10. The Composer as Dialectical Thinker: Hanns Eisler's Philosophical Reflections on Music -- 11. Double Mimesis: Georg Lukács's Philosophy of Music -- Contributors -- Index.